Applied Social Sciences News

• Half of U.S. children -- and most black children -- will use food stamps, Cornell study reports | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/03/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Food stamps are important indicators of poverty and risk of food insecurity, "two of the most detrimental economic conditions affecting a child's health," says Cornell Professor Thomas A. Hirschl.
• Lecture series covers basics in entrepreneurship | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/13/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  "We designed this series with the intention of really covering the most important aspects of entrepreneurship," said Dan Cohen, eLab's Entreprenuer-in-Residence and a faculty member in the ILR School.
• NPR's 'Science Friday' taps Cornell ornithologists, veterinarians for live show | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/12/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Bird migration and insights into being a veterinarian were the topics that Ira Flatow addressed Oct. 9, 2009 in his two-hour show, National Public Radio's "Talk of the Nation: Science Friday," broadcast live from Bailey Hall before nearly 1,000 people.
• Undersecretary of agriculture turns to Cornell as a model of urban extension | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/28/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  The USDA is planning to launch the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, which will address the issues of food safety, nutrition and obesity and will be modeled after the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
• Program offers green job training to veterans, many with disabilities | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/22/2009 Chronicle feature
  CCE Onondaga has created a program called A Different Shade of Green, which will provide job training to 120 veterans, many with disabilities, for jobs in environmentally sustainable fields.
• Regulatory reform vital for financial stability, panelists say | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/17/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Barry Eichengreen of UC-Berkeley, author Robert Kuttner and Cornell economist Eswar Prasad participated in the Lund Critical Debate on the financial crisis, moderated by Jonathan Kirchner.
• New funds help faculty publish in open-access journals | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/15/2009 Chronicle feature
  The Cornell Open-Access Publication (COAP) Fund will underwrite processing fees for scholarly peer-reviewed articles in open-access journals for which funds are not otherwise available. Cornell authors can apply for funding of up to $3,000.
• van Es wins national award for advancing inclusiveness | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/14/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Cindy van Es, senior lecturer in applied economics and management at Cornell, is one of five faculty members in the nation to receive the new Inclusive Excellence Award for Accounting and Business School Faculty from Ernst & Young LLP.
• $3.2 million NSF grant trains grad students to tackle food systems and poverty problems | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/26/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  The grant will support 25 Ph.D. students for two years each in the Food Systems and Poverty Reduction Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) program, administered through CIIFAD.

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